{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sporting-events-control-of-alcohol-etc-act-1985/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sporting-events-control-of-alcohol-etc-act-1985/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/57",
  "legislation_title": "Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sporting-events-control-of-alcohol-etc-act-1985",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Powers of enforcement.",
  "text": "(1) A constable may, at any time during the period of a designated sporting event at any designated sports ground, enter any part of the ground for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act.\n(2) A constable may search a person he has reasonable grounds to suspect is committing or has committed an offence under this Act ....\n(3) A constable may stop a public service vehicle (within the meaning of section 1 of this Act) or a motor vehicle to which section 1A of this Act applies and may search such a vehicle or a railway passenger vehicle if he has reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence under that section is being or has been committed in respect of the vehicle.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(2) repealed (1.1.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 7 para. 25, Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.I. 2005/3495, art. 2(1)(m)(u)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Public Order Act 1986 (c. 64, SIF 39:2), s. 40(1), Sch. 1 para. 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/57/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:57.353509+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}